Opera Warhorses

An appreciation and analysis of the ‘Standard Repertory’ of opera

Opera Warhorses - Teatro alla Scala - Milano

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Correspondence with Tom and Bob

February 2nd, 2006

November, 2005
Hi Bill: I love your new opera “Warhorses” site!! Excellent idea, and you, a true scholar on the idiom, are more than qualified to do it!! We’ll talk more at dinner before Parsifal which I will see this weekend!! Meanwhile, I’ll see L A Opera’s Tosca with Samuel Ramey as my hero Baron Scarpia [...]

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Correspondence with Stephen

January 5th, 2006

November, 2005
I enjoyed the site very much. Looking forward to reading more. I think we were both at that Faust; some of them are still alive. Wild horses couldn’t drag me to a performance of that opera these days, though. It just hasn’t worn well with me. But of course then, it was sheer [...]

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Correspondence with Sal, Carol Jean and Jonathan

December 21st, 2005

November, 2005
Bill, It was wonderful to see you again at our reunion. It is a pity that we don’t live in the same city since we both have such a love of opera. Have you ever seen the video production of Tosca (on Decca label) with the young Placido Domingo and Sherill Milnes? It is-visually [...]

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